Gamestop MGS4 Midnight Release Plan

Many of You will be heading up to your local gamestop at midnight tonight in anticipation of purchasing the long awaited MGS4. Many of you may have held off to purchase a ps3 until this very moment and were planning on buying the new 80 MGS4 bundle for $499.99. The launch of the new system bundle may not come as easy as planned. Each gamestop is set to only receive around 2-3 of these bundles. Gamestop will not be doing any "pre-ringing" or reserves of the bundle as they are in short supply and will be selling them "first come, first served". At my local gamestop we have received more calls asking about the bundle then we can supply and have already been asked by customers if we would allow people to form the line early in the afternoon today as they want to "camp out" unitl midnight tonight to guarantee themselves one of the bundles. So my advice to all of you wanting to get one of these amazing bundles is to get there early and wait it out. As for the rest of you, contact your local gamestop and find out if and when they will begin "pre- ringing" the games by themselves. Have fun everyone and hope to see some of you there.

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(Pre-ringing means they will let you pay off the game before midnight and will give you your receipt with a number and the number will correspond with your placement in line to pick up the game at midnight. Note- this will not be done with the system bundles.)

I really never expected this to be this big of a deal. Even the Best Buy I was in (looking for Metal Gear Solid: The Essentials) has said they have had an overwhelming number of calls about the bundle.

because gamestop sucks. I went to my local gamestop and they told me that they were getting a minimum of 5 systems. I live in the LA area. To order 5 systems is just garbage for a city this size. Sony has stopped producing the 80 gig to free up some production for this bundle I would imagine, but I had no clue the bundle wouldnt be avaiable, or this scarce.

Best bet might be going to Target or walmart where people can't line up JUST for the sole purpose of getting the game, and make a mad dash to the electronics department, eliminating all other consumers through sheer speed or a blind rage.

Don't you wish you guys lived in Australia because then you'd be getting the bundle a whole 10 hours earlier. I'd have mine now if I pre-ordered sooner.

In my small city my ebgame store only got 6 bundle and they got pre-ordered fast. But whoever were the first 6 people to pre-order gets their bundles first. That makes sense to me, but apparently it doesn't make sense to gamespot

I'm a HUGE Metal Gear fan, but I've always been under the impression that the games were not quite at "mainstream" level; however, I, too, have been EXTREMELY surprised at the number of calls we've received at Game Crazy about the bundle! We also only received a shipment of two bundles, so I have a feeling tomorrow morning's gonna be pretty crazy. Oh, well! Glad to see MGS4's getting well-deserved attention!

you think that sucks? i went to my gamestop to ask if they were having a midnight opening..and the guy replied to me by saying "why does everyone keep asking me that?..MGS4 is not even a that of a big game for a store to be open..no we are not open at midnight for its launch"...like wtf?..douchebag

Calling this guy a douchebag is an understatement. I mean what a little b!tch. And this guy works at a games store, he of all people should know how big this game. One of the biggest games of this year and most likely GOTY.

Personally I think that Gamestop only placed orders for just a few of the 80GB PS3 MGS4 bundles at a time on purpose.

I'm almost certain that bigger stores like Best Buy and Walmart will have a MUCH larger stock for the simple fact that they are larger stores.

I was thinking that this new 80GB PS3 MGS4 bundle is supposed to be taking place of the old 80GB PS3 Motorstorm bundle, so I really can't see them being very limited for a long period of time.

I know one thing for sure, tommorrow it is going to be pandemoneum for the scramble to get these 80GB PS3 bundles at retail. We already saw the affect that the bundles had on Amazon.com's website last week, so that pretty much means that at retail the craze for the bundles will be about the same.

i'm a tool for gamstop, i know i'm a terrible person for trying to push reservations and magazine subscriptions on you guys, but i get a discount for my gamer soul. lol anyway lots of people have been asking and waiting for this system to come out simply for the backwards compatibility. plus great deal 80gb Ps3 (all the fixens) =$435 Dualshock3 =$5 (more than a sixaxis) "one of the best games ever made" =$60 too bad its not "gun-metal" grey

so if you meant best blu-ray player, i would also correct you and say best blu-ray player for the price because you get a gaming console included.

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FACT is does have the biggest library of games FACT highest rated exclusives with SIX over 90% at metacritic.com while the ps3 has ZERO FACT multi-plat run and look better, you opinion means nothing. best example: ps2's best selling franchise GTA4, ps3 ran it at sub hd with noAA and the 360 got it at 720p with 2xAA.

on gameranking uncharted is 89.8, get it right KID!!!!

best online service - why would you even try to argue that?

and yes, MGS4 looks awesome, it should, it's ps3 first AAA game after almost two freakin years!

Biggest library of mostly crap, IGN said this themselves...shovelware..Don King Prize Fighter? 5/10.

Highest rated exclusives, where? Once Bioshock arrives, we have more AAA (and that is according to definition by bots and gamerankings), and on gamerankings, multiplats like GTA IV score higher than 360. Uncharted is 90% on gamerankings and Halo 3 is severely overated at 93%. We have better game selection of excellent games. We also have more exclusives than 360 can even dream of. Where are the games like Singstar and Hot Shots Golf. You know, first party exclusives that score 8.5 to 9.0 and they are lowkey titles? MLB 08': The Show, you know, best baseball game out (first party exclusive)?...

Multiplats? COD4, Burnout, DMC4, Oblivion, GTA IV, etc. you know, the actual good ones run better on PS3. You can have Harry Potter...lol

Best online service? For Bigots? (Adam Sessler's Comment, not mine) that you have to pay to play? We have dedicated servers....

Now let's talk about what that thing can't do! You really want to go there? Cause, you have to know! Many will see the truth tonight! :)

I will be purchasing mgs tomorrow after reading alot of reviews about this game, but i for one won't be outside some shop at midnight getting soaking wet, as for when you do get home with the game i should imagine you want to go to bed.

Be patient get it in the morning i'm sure theres plenty to go around, it won't be like gta4 as it's a marmite game you either love it or hate mgs.

showed up at 7:30 got my snack on, watched hitman on ipod, did a puzzle, debate metal gear with kids in line, and finally got my hands on the bundle. i wouldnt mind being in the back of the line cuz everyone gets a game who pre ordered, but the bundles are first come first serve so had to be there early, i got lucky and nabbed the last one (only four) got back to my friends house, popped in his MGS4 and sat in awe at how amazing the first few minutes are.